Taylor Sheridan is making rare comments about Kevin Costner‘s Yellowstone exit.
The 56-year-old creator, writer and executive producer of the hit series opened up about the actor’s exit from the series, which happened in the middle of season five, leading to his character being killed off.
While appearing on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Taylor shared that it was originally in Kevin‘s contract that he was “only supposed to be in the first three seasons.”
“That was in his contract. In my mind, that’s when his youngest son takes over [on the show]… But the network was so scared of not having Kevin be a part of it, even though Kevin was ready,” he said. “He was ready to go. He had other things he wanted to do, but he stayed on for another two seasons.”
The show’s creator added that Kevin continued to be on the show because “it was such a behemoth” and “such a huge hit.”
“The notion of giving up a hit before it had run out of juice to squeeze is very foreign to a network,” Taylor shared. “There was even pressure from some of the cable companies wanting to put it in their deals, that they were going to get an X-number of seasons of Yellowstone to re-up what this cable company is. That’s the power of a really big hit show.”
Eventually, Kevin had to “go do [his] own thing.”
Previously, Kevin opened up about this exit and how splitting season five into two parts ultimately led to him leaving, as he had other obligations for his movie Horizon.
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